"Oligarchic control [...] thwarts rational decision-making, because the short-term interests of the elite are radically different to the long-term interests of society."
— George Monbiot

January 1, 1970

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"Hopeless Realism", published in the Guardian on 14 November 2018. Later published in the book This Can't Be Happening, 2010, page 35 (ISBN 9780241514634).